The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 785)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this, the king caused inquiries to be made, of all such as had aided with men or monie the Cor|nish rebels, so that diuerse persons as well in Sum|mersetshire as Deuonshire were detected of that of|fense which he minded for example [...]ake should tast some part of due punishments for their [...]imes, ac|cording to the qualitie thereof. And therefore he ap|pointed Thomas lord Darcie,Cõmissioners appointed for [...]essing of their [...]ines that fauoured the Cornish rebels. Amisse Pa [...]le [...] knight, and Robert Sherborne deane of P [...]ules (that was after bishop of Chichester) to be commissioners for as|sessing of their sines that were found culpable. These commissioners so b [...]stirred themselues, in tossing the coffers and substance of all the inhabitants of both those shires, that there was not one person imbrued or spotted with the filth of that abhominable crime, that escaped the paine which he had deserued: but to such yet as offended rather by constreint than of ma|lice, they were gentle and fauourable, so that equitie therein was verie well and iustlie executed.

¶In this yeare all the gardens which had béene continued time out of mind,

Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag 872. Gardens in Moore field [...] wast to make archers game.

Price of haie doubled.

Sebastian Gabato his discouerie of [...]n Iland of rich commo|dities.

without Moore gate of London, were destroied, and of them was made a plaine field for archers to shoot in. Also this yéere was a great drought, by reason whereof a load of haie, which was before sold at London at fiue shillings, was this yeare sold for ten or twelue more. Also this yeare, one Sebastian Gabato, a Genoas sonne, borne in Bristow, professing himselfe to be expert in knowledge of the circuit of the world, and Ilands of the same, as by his charts and other reasonable de|monstrations he shewed, caused the king to man and vittell a ship at Bristow, to search for an Iland which he knew to be replenished with rich commodites. In the ship diuerse merchants of London aduentured small stocks, and in the companie of this ship sailed also out of Bristow three or foure small ships fraight with slight and grosse wares, as course cloash, caps, lases, points, and such other.

Sir Humfrie Gilbert knight, in his booke intitu|led, A discouerie for a new passage to Cataia, writeth thus;

Sebastian Gabato, by his personall experience and trauell, hath described and set foorth this passage in his charts, which are yet to be séene in the quéenes maiesties priuie gallerie at White hall, who was sent to make this discouerie by king Henrie the se|uenth, and entered the same f [...]et, affirming that hee sailed verie farre westward, with a quarter of the north, on the north side of terra de Labrador, the eleuenth of Iune, vntill he came to the septentrionall latitude of 67½ degrées, and finding the seas still open, said, that he might & would haue gon to Cataia, if the em|nitie of the maister and mariners had not béene.

Ne|uerthelesse, he went verie farre, euen to a nation in|habited with people more like beasts than men, as ap|peareth in the yeare 1502, and the seuentéenth of this kings reigne, when the said traueller was returned, and presented himselfe to the kings maiestie.]